Simultaneous determination of phenylurea herbicides in yam by capillary electrophoresis with electrochemiluminescence detection
Hu, Y.
Journal of Chromatography. B Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences 986-987: 143-148
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 1873-376X PMID: 25732033 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2015.02.016
Accession: 058857037
A method of capillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled with electrochemiluminescence (ECL) detection has been applied to detect three major phenylurea herbicides (monuron, monolinuron and diuron) simultaneously. The effects of yam sample preparation, injection voltage and time, detection potential, detection buffer concentration and pH, Ru(bpy)₃(2+) concentration, separation buffer type, separation buffer pH and concentration, separation voltage were investigated in detail. Under optimum conditions, a good baseline separation and highly sensitive detection for monuron, monolinuron and diuron were achieved. The ECL intensity (I) was in proportion to three analytes concentration (ρ) in the range of 0.1-10,000 μg/L for monuron (r≥0.9993), 0.1-18,000 μg/L for monolinuron (r≥0.9995) and 0.1-20,000 μg/L for diuron (r≥0.9997). The detection limits for monuron, monolinuron and diuron were 0.05, 0.04 and 0.01 μg/L (S/N=3), respectively. The developed method was successfully applied for the analysis of monuron, monolinuron and diuron residues in yam simultaneously. The average recoveries are in the ranges of 90.0-99.2% with relative standard deviations less than 3.2%. The limits of detection of the proposed method were 0.010 μg/kg for monuron, 0.008 μg/kg for monolinuron and diuron in yam.